Improvement in tanning and stuffing leather



UNITED STATES PATENT. QFFIOE.

JOSEPH PETERS, OF ST. JAMES, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT INTANNING AND STUFFING LEATHER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,246, dated J une 25, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH PETERS, of the town of St. James, in the county of Phelps and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Composition of Matter, which is fullydescribed in the following specification:

My invention consists of a new compound for batin g, tanning, and finishing leather, and is made of the following ingredients, viz., for

hating: To forty (40) gallons of water add onepound of saltpeter, and one (1) pound of sulphuric acid.

The hides are placed in this liquor and properly handled several times a day for six or eight days till they are completely tanned.

The acid is then neutralized, and the leather finished by the following finishing compound: viz., to three (3) quarts of tanners oil add two (2) pounds of melted tallow and one (1) quart three (3) quarts of lye, and stir the compound till it is cold. The flesh side of the hides is then covered bya brush with the finishing compound one-third the thickness of the leather, and the hides are then hung in the shade to dry, and when they are dry the stuffing is all thoroughly removed by a steel sleek, and by a whitening-knife a shaving is taken from every part of the flesh side. The compound for the grain side is applied with a sponge, all it will carry, and the hides packed away, flesh side to flesh side, for four or five days before the stuffing is applied to the flesh side.

I claim- 1. The compound for bating hides, of the materials and in the proportions substantially as described.

2. The compound for tanning leather, of the materials and in the proportions substantially as described.

3. The compound for finishing leather, of the materials and in the proportions as described.

In attestation of the foregoing specifications and claims I hereto subscribe my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOS. PETERS.

Witnesses:

J OSEPH F. KERN, LYDIA E. KERN. 

